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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 29, 1934.

(b) The personnel of any ship which is in the waters of the Colony and passengers residing thereon;

race

(c) Persons not exceeding 16 years of age.

to furnish

etc.

3.--(1) Every alion, other than an alien of Chinese Aliens may or an alien exempted from liability to report under be required section 2 (4) or by section 2 (5), on being required to do certain so by any police officer either verbally or in writing, shall particulars, make a correct return of the information and particulars specified in the Schedule and shall, for such purpose, if so Schedule. required by any police officer, attend forthwith or as directed at Police Headquarters. He shall also either supply two sufficient photographs of himself or allow himself to be photographed.

(2) He shall also truthfully and fully answer all questions and inquiries put to him by any police officer with a view to checking the correctness of the return.

(3) Any answer to any such question or inquiry shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings under this Ordinance Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be construed as rendering any such answer inadmissible in any other proceedings in which it would otherwise be

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admissible.

(4) He shall also disclose and produce to any police officer on demand all documents in his possession tending directly or indirectly to establish his identity, nationality and occupation.

the

of visitors

4.-(1) It shall be the duty of the keeper of every hotel, Registration inn, boarding-house, and lodging-house, and of the secretary at hotels, of every club, to ascertain and enter in a register kept for the etc. purpose the names and nationality of all persons except persons of Chinese race staying at the hotel, inn, board- ing-house, lodging-house or club, together with dates of their arrival and departure, their destinations on departure and such other particulars as may be prescribed by the Inspector General of Police, and if the keeper of an hotel, inn, boarding-house or lodging-house, or the secretary of a club, fails to do so, or if he makes any entry in any such register which he knows or could by the exercise of reasonable diligence have ascertained to be false, he shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.

(2) The keeper of every hotel, inn, boarding-house or lodging-house, and the secretary of every club, shall also make to the Inspector General of Police such return as to the particulars aforesaid, at such times or intervals, and in such form as the Inspector General of Police may direct, and every such keeper or secretary who fails to do so, or makes any false return, shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.

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(3) It shall be the duty of every person except a race who stays at an hotel, inn, person of Chinese boarding-house, lodging-house, club, to furnish the keeper or secretary and sign a statement containing such information as such keeper or secretary may require for the purpose of compiling such register as aforesaid, and every person who fails to do so, or gives any false information,

shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.

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